Calendar of Literary Facts
May 22...
1527: Niccolò Machiavelli dies
1859: Arthur Conan Doyle is born
1885: Victor Hugo dies
1927: Peter Matthiessen is born
1934: Garry Wills is born
1936: M. Scott Peck is born
1940: The Auschwitz concentration camp is established in Poland
1948: Claude McKay dies
1967: Langston Hughes dies
1972: C. Day Lewis dies
